A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF SLANG AND CATCHY PHRASES USED IN SOME SELECTED NIGERIAN HIP-HOP SONGS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION: Language is a major and an indispensable tool in human existence. No wonder Microsoft Encarta (2009) defines it as “the principal means used by human beings to communicate with one another”. Language is primarily spoken, although it can be transf...
View DetailsAN ASSESSEMENT OF THE LEGAL STRUCTURE FOR THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN NIGERIA
Abstract: This study assess of the legal structure for the protection of women’s rights in Nigeria. Specifically, the study aimed to examine the platform provided under the Nigerian law for the protection of women’s rights as well as to study the exte...
View DetailsASSESSMENT OF FACTORS AFFECTING PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN NIGERIA
Background of the study: Transforming enormous ideas into economic opportunities is the decisive issue of entrepreneurship. History shows that economic progress has been significantly advanced by pragmatic people who are entrepreneurial and innovative, able to exploit opportuniti...
View DetailsCOMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PERFORMANCES OF GOVERNMENT OWNED AND PRIVATELY OWNED MEDIA ORGANIZATION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The role of the broadcasters and the broadcast media...
View DetailsPRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF WHATSAPP CHATS
Abstract: WhatsApp has significantly penetrated the various spheres of peoples’ lives all over the world. The purpose of this study is to look at two aspects of WhatsApp text-based status notifications; namely, the most common discursive realizations and th...
View DetailsTHE LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF NIGERIAN ENGLISH AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR 21ST CENTURY ENGLISH PEDAGOGY
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background to the study: One sociolinguistic implication of the diffusion of English language - an amalgam of the three paltry languages of the J...
View DetailsTHE IMPACT OF MICROFINANCE BANK IN GROWTH OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE BUSINESS IN NIGERIA
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Nigeria is said to have a relatively long history of government initiatives to promote and finance, small and medium enterpri...
View DetailsTHE IMPACT OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION ON THE PERFORMANCE OF NON PROFIT MAKING ORGANIZATIONS IN OSOGBO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the study: The word non-profit making organizations explained that the organizations are not established for the purpose of making profi...
View DetailsTHE CONTROVERSIES AND DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED IN FEDERALISM AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN NIGERIA
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the study: The problems with national integration in Nigeria are so severe that the country's federation is on the verge of dissolving altogether. Both antagonistic and integrat...
View DetailsA LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF METAPHORS IN THE POETRY OF NIYI OSUNDARE
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Poetic discourse has always been considered an important aspect of discursive practices that presents a scholarly approach to creative uses of language. Poetic discourse is considered to be comprehensively language-dependent; it relies mainly on the rhetorical and pragmatic con...
View DetailsA SYSTEMS APPROACH TO HOUSING DELIVERY IN THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY (FCT) ABUJA, NIGERIA
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Housing has been described as an unstructured, complex, multi-dimensional phenomenon and its delivery as an important social policy issue. However, housing delivery in Nigeria is enmeshed in a myriad of perennial problems: huge housing deficits; acute shortages; overcrowding; h...
View DetailsAN APPRAISAL OF LIABILITY REGIME FOR REDRESS AND COMPENSATION FOR VICTIMS OF AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS IN NIGERIA
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This reach work “entitled the liability Regime for Redress and Compensation for victims of aircraft Accidents in Nigeria.” Revealed that aircraft accident is a recurrent decimal world over, and in particular, plane crashes result in a number of casualties, affecting...
View DetailsCHALLENGES OF PROLIFERATION OF SMALL ARMS AND LIGHT WEAPONS TO PEACE-BUILDING IN LIBERIA AND SIERRA LEONE
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This study focuses on the challenges of proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALW) to peace-building in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The study provides a critical analysis of the nature of warfare in Africa with the use of small arms and light weapons and child soldiers....
View DetailsCircumventing Network Filtering with Polymorphic Protocol Shapeshifting
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As use of the Internet has expanded to become ubiquitous, so has the use of filtering technology to selectively block access to content. In order to restore access to blocked content, filtering circumvention technologies have also been developed. This dissertat...
View DetailsDEWEY PHILOSOPHY AND CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION IN NIGERIA IMPELICATION FOR DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION
1.1Background to the Study
Since the return of sovereignty, education that is to do with socio-political, ideological orientation and democratic tenets and that helps to liberate the mind and mould the individual for self-reliance has been the main national objective of Nigerian educati...
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